It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
WAYLON JENNINGSThose neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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